Define "easy". Last I checked, it requires a lot of public funding for road restructuring projects, whereas vehicles are sold on the open market to individuals.
Not exactly disagreeing with your point, though... there are many MANY examples of terrible traffic patterns in my town alone.
No one said anything about "provable" above. You seem confused between "provable" and "testable". Evolution as an origin of species is certainly testable, as we have built models from fossil records into which archaeological findings seem to fit nicely. Intelligent Design is a lost cause from the get-go, as it relies on the absence of evidence to insist upon the point that "you gotta believe" that we were created in our present form, and evolution from ape to human never occurred... because you know... some people find it threatening to think their ancestors might have been apes.
We're talking about operating systems and how they handle security, so I don't think the Windows example is completely out-of-place.
What if your Wifi password is the same password you use everywhere? I know that's a dumb move, but you'd be surprised how many people suck at using different passwords for each login. Security is like an onion, it's comprised of layers. If you take away one of those layers, you increase the likelihood of an attack.
Well, is it not the same people that were behind the changes in Gnome 3 so everything over to tablet mode, udev, and advocating the use of binary configuration files?
No, this is definitely not enough. They should have gone back into time before they decided to press charges and altered history.
Somebody mod this guy Funny, please. I would if I had the points.
$200 isn't that much in the scheme of things. I mean yeah it's a month's worth of a family cellphone plan, or a modest food budget, but for investors not so much. If I'd been more forward-looking when I was a student, I would have put at least 20 bucks in, which would have set me back about two hours of work or a nice dinner.
The free market argument is a weak one, and doesn't correlate with the reality in which we live. Have you seen the way "free market" ISPs operate in regards to competition? Doesn't work so well does it? With many geographical areas being locked into a choice between AT&T and Time Warner, there is virtually no competition. There are many who are arguing that ISPs should be treated as public utilities so that they can't throttle competing services that traverse their wires, requiring government intervention.
If you want to argue that the government is screwing something up and needs to get its hands out of something, I'd look towards the military industrial complex.
It seems like it'd be easier to simply *not program* the robot to stab humans than it would be to program it *not to stab*. I mean... don't even give it the capability, know what I mean?
Our federal government shut down yesterday. How the hell do they have the resources to fight the "war on drugs" when they can't even keep the national parks open?!?!
The idea that "the market sorts itself out" is easily debunked when looking at the differences between theory and practice of economics. Any econ major will tell you that the prime assumptions are that all actors in the system will make rational decisions, yet people are not purely rational beings; even tracking the market reveals more about how people feel than it will about the actual cost/value of commodities.
Actually, the alternative sounds pretty attractive right about now. Let the government focus more on policing companies instead of individuals. I think either threat, whether it's tougher regulation from the government or class action lawsuits, would a big enough headache that a company would rather avoid it altogether, regardless of the expense. Time is the one resource that can never be returned, and opportunity costs can be ridiculously high.
Also, for fuck's sake, cool off a bit before posting, man.
It's a shame this was modded +5 Interesting, when it's clearly not serious. Unless it is serious, in which case it's simply ignorant as fuck and should be modded down to oblivion. I'm sorry, but the attitude of blaming historical cultural imperialism for modern problems was supposed to die out last decade, for those who have not been paying attention.
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Oh wow... Hindsight is 4/Insightful?
Define "easy". Last I checked, it requires a lot of public funding for road restructuring projects, whereas vehicles are sold on the open market to individuals.
Not exactly disagreeing with your point, though... there are many MANY examples of terrible traffic patterns in my town alone.
I find that most folks with "Anonymous Coward" and no name are experts at trolling.
AAANND cue the strawmen.
No one said anything about "provable" above. You seem confused between "provable" and "testable". Evolution as an origin of species is certainly testable, as we have built models from fossil records into which archaeological findings seem to fit nicely. Intelligent Design is a lost cause from the get-go, as it relies on the absence of evidence to insist upon the point that "you gotta believe" that we were created in our present form, and evolution from ape to human never occurred... because you know... some people find it threatening to think their ancestors might have been apes.
Pretty much. I'd argue that if that's what they want, they should be able to afford a private school to "teach the controversy" to their kids.
Computers use the binary system to represent everything. Tell me again how manipulating strings using a computer process isn't mathematical.
We're talking about operating systems and how they handle security, so I don't think the Windows example is completely out-of-place.
What if your Wifi password is the same password you use everywhere? I know that's a dumb move, but you'd be surprised how many people suck at using different passwords for each login. Security is like an onion, it's comprised of layers. If you take away one of those layers, you increase the likelihood of an attack.
Well, is it not the same people that were behind the changes in Gnome 3 so everything over to tablet mode, udev, and advocating the use of binary configuration files?
No, this is definitely not enough. They should have gone back into time before they decided to press charges and altered history. Somebody mod this guy Funny, please. I would if I had the points.
There was a documentary about this recently, but I think it's one of those programs that's only available via tinfoil hat.
Well, the electron is classically depicted as being blue, and happens to participate in the formation of crystal structures. /joke>
$200 isn't that much in the scheme of things. I mean yeah it's a month's worth of a family cellphone plan, or a modest food budget, but for investors not so much. If I'd been more forward-looking when I was a student, I would have put at least 20 bucks in, which would have set me back about two hours of work or a nice dinner.
The free market argument is a weak one, and doesn't correlate with the reality in which we live. Have you seen the way "free market" ISPs operate in regards to competition? Doesn't work so well does it? With many geographical areas being locked into a choice between AT&T and Time Warner, there is virtually no competition. There are many who are arguing that ISPs should be treated as public utilities so that they can't throttle competing services that traverse their wires, requiring government intervention.
If you want to argue that the government is screwing something up and needs to get its hands out of something, I'd look towards the military industrial complex.
Oh snap! (for the uninformed, this is a reference to how Linux came to be).
Ummm... not all of it is. In fact, we'll have to wait until 2017 for the entirety of the ACA to come into effect. Asshole.
It seems like it'd be easier to simply *not program* the robot to stab humans than it would be to program it *not to stab*. I mean... don't even give it the capability, know what I mean?
Our federal government shut down yesterday. How the hell do they have the resources to fight the "war on drugs" when they can't even keep the national parks open?!?!
Whoever modded this guy informative must not understand what "informative" means. Please mod funny or troll.
The idea that "the market sorts itself out" is easily debunked when looking at the differences between theory and practice of economics. Any econ major will tell you that the prime assumptions are that all actors in the system will make rational decisions, yet people are not purely rational beings; even tracking the market reveals more about how people feel than it will about the actual cost/value of commodities.
Explain that one to me again?
Because they're the ones that processed the transaction behind an ad that said "Season 5 for $22.99" without specifying that it's just part 1.
That was pretty off-topic, there AC. You even left us guessing about which part of hicksville you call home (Georgia perhaps?).
Actually, the alternative sounds pretty attractive right about now. Let the government focus more on policing companies instead of individuals. I think either threat, whether it's tougher regulation from the government or class action lawsuits, would a big enough headache that a company would rather avoid it altogether, regardless of the expense. Time is the one resource that can never be returned, and opportunity costs can be ridiculously high.
Also, for fuck's sake, cool off a bit before posting, man.
It's a shame this was modded +5 Interesting, when it's clearly not serious. Unless it is serious, in which case it's simply ignorant as fuck and should be modded down to oblivion. I'm sorry, but the attitude of blaming historical cultural imperialism for modern problems was supposed to die out last decade, for those who have not been paying attention.